Natural Resources Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment for the AT&SF (Clovis) New Mexico Superfund Site, Clovis, New Mexico

摘要

In January, 2004, the Department of the Interior and The New Mexico Natural Resources Trustee, acting through the New Mexico Office of Natural Resources Trustee, as natural resource trustees ('Trustees'), received money for a settlement of a natural resource damage claim with the responsible parties for the AT&SF Clovis (New Mexico) Superfund Site ('Clovis Site'). The Trustees sought this settlement because contamination at this site had injured trust resources under the Trustees' authority. The Trustees are required to use the settlement money to compensate for those losses. The Comprehensive Environmental Compensation and Liability Act ('CERCLA', commonly known as the federal 'Superfund' law), which designates natural resource trustees, requires that before the settlement monies can be used for restoration activities a restoration plan must be developed and adopted, and that in doing so, there must be adequate public notice and consideration of all public comment. The Trustees prepared a Revised Draft Wildlife Habitat Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment ('Revised Draft RP/EA', dated March 2007) to address natural resources injured and ecological services lost, injured, or destroyed as a result of releases of hazardous substances from the Clovis Site.